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Re: The summer of PKI love
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Sun Aug 14 21:56:30 2005
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Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:47:33 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: Stephan Neuhaus <neuhaus@st.cs.uni-sb.de>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Stephan Neuhaus wrote:
> Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
>
>> http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/08/10/33OPstrategic_1.html
>
>
> The page goes on to say:
>
> "One reason for PKI's slow uptake has been the lack of two kinds of
> portability. It hasn't been easy to move cryptographic keys from one
> machine to another, or to use credentials issued by one institution at
> another. But as we learned at the summit, there's been progress on both
> fronts."
>
> If I remember correctly, portability is not necessarily a thing to
> strive for here, because it means that not only your certificates will
> be transported from A to B, but also the corresponding private
> information will have a tendency to leak all over the place.
Regardless of whether its a good idea, saying it is a problem seems to
me to be complete bollocks. Moving keys around is generally easy.
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